Speculation about what would play at the 67th Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25) has been rampant. Well, now we know. Some movies that weren’t finished or didn’t make the cut will wind up in Venice or the fall film festivals. What we will see in the Official Selection of 49 titles (out of 1800 submissions) announced Thursday by Thierry Fremaux is a mix of established auteur perennials who keep coming back to the Competition, year after year, like Canadians David Cronenberg (“Map to the Stars,” starring Rob Pattinson), marking his fifth film in Competition, and Atom Egoyan (“The Captive”) with his sixth.

This is the first time that Canada has three films in the race for the Palme d’Or: now 25-year-old Xavier Dolan has made the climb from Director’s Fortnight (“I Killed My Mother”) to Un Certain Regard (“Heartbeats” and “Laurence Anyways”) and now “Mommy.” Other familiar returning Cannes faces include Olivier Assayas (“Clouds of Sils Maria”), seven-timer Jean-Luc Godard (3D “Goodbye to Language”), four-timer Mike Leigh (Sony Pictures Classics’ “Mr. Turner,” starring Timothy Spall), twelve-timer Ken Loach (“Jimmy’s Hall”), six-timers the Dardennes brothers (Sundance Selects’ “Two Days, One Night”), and “The Artist” Palme d’Or-nominee Michel Hazanavicius (“The Search”). Tommy Lee Jones returns to Cannes with period western “The Homesman,” in which he stars with Hilary Swank, Meryl Streep, and Hailee Steinfeld. His 2005 debut, “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,” earned him an acting prize.

She’ll be on the red carpet along with Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska (“Maps to the Stars,” with the former also appearing in “The Rover”), Hilary Swank and Meryl Streep (“Homesman”) and Christina Hendricks and Eva Mendes (“Lost River”), Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart and Chloe Grace Moretz (“Clouds of Sils Maria”) and Ryan Reynolds and Rosario Dawson (“The Captive”).

Given that the only woman to have won a Palme d’Or, “The Piano” director Jane Campion, is heading this year’s competition jury, Cannes director Thierry Fremaux wisely included two films directed by women, unlike the last two years: competition regular Naomi Kawase (“Still the Water”), who won the Grand Prix (2007’s “The Mourning Forest”) and Camera d’Or (1997’s “Suzaku”) in the past, and Italian Alice Rohrwacher’s second film “Le Meraviglie.” Her first, “Corpo celeste,” debuted in Directors’ Fortnight. A total of 15 women directors are in the Official Selection, Fremaux emphasized.